BLOWN UP Synonyms: 137 Similar and Opposite Words

blown up 1 of 2

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as in blown

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verb

past participle of blow up

as in angered

to become very angry she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day

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as in exploded

to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure the building blew up because of a gas leak

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as in demolished

to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away

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as in trumpeted

to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness

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Recent Examples of blown up

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The rules of the game state that, if a head of a household falls, the next person in succession must take their place and fight, or their entire family line will get blown up by Satan. —

Jada Yuan, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026 Talk about them finding their way back to each other to get five minutes of happiness before it was all blown up by this accident. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026 Have the Americans and the Israelis blown up empty buildings or those with the right people inside them? —

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026 The idea that Golden State should have blown up its offensive identity to accommodate Kuminga is patently absurd. —

Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026 Jim Tanimoto remembers a lot from his 102 years of life, but not who took the photograph blown up on his office wall. —

Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026 Williams had just blown up the Chargers’ last-gasp comeback attempt and charged over to his head coach, getting a massive bear hug from Vrabel. —

Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026 That poor woman got the privilege out of 11,000 applicants to get blown up five miles out in space. —

Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026 Eight of the structure’s sixteen apartments had been destroyed, their side walls blown up. —

Oriana Van Praag, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026

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But Magyar, a former Fidesz insider who has won over voters angered at a lack of growth, failing public services and a series of graft and child protection scandals, has built his brand with tours of town and village squares.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2026
One of Best’s nieces, Tatiana Barrett, told The Associated Press that revelations from the report have angered and saddened family and friends.

— Dave Collins, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2026